Sport League Scores

[J Anderson]

In response to Michael's request here is a thread for who bowls in a sport league to put up their numbers. Not that any one is going to check, but let's keep this to people who actually belong to a sport league, not people who just try it once in a while when league is over or if they get to use a lane that was oiled for sport and wasn't needed.

[J Anderson]

I bowl in the DV8 Challenge league at Nutmeg Bowl, Fairfield, CT
These scores can be verified by going to leaguesecretary.com and looking up league i.d. # 39320
The format for this league is: Scratch singles, with 4 bowlers per lane, two sets of two games with bowlers moving to a different pair after the first set. High score for each game on the pair earns 6 points, 2nd high - 4, 3rd high - 2. Same point for set total wood. 4 point bonus for a clean game, with an additional 4 points for a clean set.

9/9/13 171, 174, 192, 167 Kegel Turnpike
9/16/13 133, 142, 189, 204
9/23/13 173, 171, 147, 147 Kegel Winding Road
9/30/13 156, 217, 257, 148
10/7/13 164, 181, 145, 171
10/14/13 176, 157, 152, 185 Kegel Autobahn
10/21/13 165, 169, 163, 170
10/28/13 167, 169, 161, 201 Kegel Dead Man's Curve
11/4/13 174, 189, 205, 155
11/11/13 207, 189, 154, 206

[noeymc]

cant tell you scores but i did bowl all summer and avged in the 150s i can keep a real count for u this summer

[Stormed1]

There aren't any sport leagues within a reasonable distance during the fall. There are 2 I bowl in the summer and I average within 5 pins of my THS average. The only sport shots available during the regular season are king of the hills. Although I will be bowling a 9 pin no tap tournament next Friday on a 45 foor sport compliant pattern

[J Anderson]

There aren't any sport leagues within a reasonable distance during the fall. There are 2 I bowl in the summer and I average within 5 pins of my THS average. The only sport shots available during the regular season are king of the hills. Although I will be bowling a 9 pin no tap tournament next Friday on a 45 foor sport compliant pattern

I guess we should include tournament scores although the No-Tap will need a big disclaimer. Otherwise this will be a pretty quiet thread.

[Aslan]

What's considered sport? Anything that isn't house?

USBC, Kegel, the animal patterns??

Just wondering

[bowl1820]

What's considered sport? Anything that isn't house?

USBC, Kegel, the animal patterns??

Just wondering

Sport patterns have a oil ratio of 3:1 or less

read about sport bowling here:
http://www.bowl.com/sportbowling/

For a sanctioned sport league. (a lot of houses don't sanction as sport leagues, because of all the trouble they have to go to for it. A lot of unsanctioned sport leagues are referred to as renegade leagues, because it's a way to basically legally sandbag.)

1. What are the lane pattern requirements for Sport Bowling leagues/tournaments?
Due to the multitude of lane machines, lane oils, and lane surfaces, specific criteria was developed for Sport Bowling leagues and tournaments to follow to ensure that the pattern they develop is within the specifications listed below.

A. The Sport Bowling pattern oil ratio requirement shall be a maximum of 3:1 regardless of the type of lane surface or the age of the lane surface.

B. Prior to Sport Bowling league/tournament competition (including Team USA Experience), the following must be done (See USBC Sport Bowling Manual, Chapter 2):

Each lane shall be stripped prior to oiling of the Sport condition.
Tapes will be taken at 22 feet and two feet before the end of the pattern.
The ratio of oil shall be no more than 3:1
The ratio shall be defined as the average amount of oil (in units) between boards Left 18 to Right 18 divided by the average amount of oil (in units) between boards R3-R7 & L3-L7, respectively.
The amount of oil measured on the outside boards (average of R/L3-7) at 22 feet must be greater than 10 units, and the amount of oil measured on the center boards (average of L18 to R18) must not exceed 80 units of oil.
The maximum amount of oil from boards R8 to R17 and L8 to L17 shall not be greater than 130 percent of the average of boards L18 to R18.
The minimum amount of oil from boards R8 to R17 shall not be less than 70 percent of the average of boards R3 to R7.
The minimum amount of oil from boards L8 to L17 shall not be less than 70 percent of the average of boards L3 to L7.
There is no pattern length minimum or maximum.
There is no lengthwise ratio requirement.
All other USBC requirements are still in effect (i.e. three-unit minimum)

[Aslan]

Even though he's not an "Aslan fan"…and even though that link doesn't work…Bowl1820 is WISE...

[bowl1820]

Even though he's not an "Aslan fan"…and even though that link doesn't work…Bowl1820 is WISE...

Okay try it now

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge league
11/18/13
Pattern: Kegel Pure Evil
168, 163, 146, 178

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge league
11/25/13
Pattern: Kegel Pure Evil
1st set: 170, 170
2nd set: 221, 160

Oddly enough that pair of 170s was good enough to sweep the first set. Would have needed a 238 in the last game to sweep the second and 210 to take total.

[J Anderson]

Our youth league competes on sport patterns for the most part. They generally get whatever pattern the Monday night sport league is going to bowl on. Today a 16 year old shot a 242 the third game on Kegel Boardwalk.

[TCJ]

There are no fall sport leagues around here. I bowled in the summer on the four old animal patterns and the U.S. Open pattern and averaged around 170 or so. I couldn't list the scores though. My high was, I think, 236 (US Open) and the low was around 120 (Shark).

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge league
12/2/13
Pattern: Kegel Boardwalk

First Set: 156, 211

2nd Set: 180, 206

The last three games may look pretty good, but the league average was close to 190 for the night.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge league
12/9/13
Pattern: Kegel Boardwalk

First Set: 207, 178

2nd Set: 189, 213

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge league
12/16/13
Pattern: Kegel Boardwalk

First Set: 150, 138

2nd Set: 172, 191

The first set scores were due to ridiculously bad spare shooting. Whatever was causing the bad shots resolved itself in the second set. Ended the 172 game with two splits, the 191 was clean.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge league
12/23/13
Pattern: Kegel Highway to Hell

First Set: 167, 178

2nd Set: 192, 156

Considering that the the league as a whole averaged a bit over 170 for the night and I averaged 173, I'm not too disappointed

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge league
12/30/13
Pattern: Kegel Highway to Hell

First Set: 185, 181

2nd Set: 179, 170

Double position round to end the first half. Wound up being the same four bowlers both sets just on a different pair

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
1/6/14
Pattern USBC 2009 Open Championship



1st Set: 189, 187

2nd set: 164, 153

Bad night for pulling the ball. At least I didn't get completely shut out the second set.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
1/13/14
Pattern USBC 2009 Open Championship



1st Set: 192, 185

2nd set: 170, 164

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
1/27/14
Pattern 2013 Masters



1st Set: 222, 154

2nd set: 123, 224

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
2/3/14
Pattern 2013 Masters



1st Set: 178, 154

2nd set: 182, 182

A lot more consistent than last week, took a couple more points. League had another visit from Rhino Page.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
2/10/14
Pattern 2013 Masters



1st Set: 199, 170

2nd set: 192, 190

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
2/24/14
Pattern 2010 USBC Open



1st Set: 179, 19?

2nd set: 188, 148

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
2/24/14
Pattern 2010 USBC Open



1st Set: 179, 191

2nd set: 188, 148

Could not edit the original post.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
3/3/14
Pattern 2010 USBC Open



1st Set: 190, 166

2nd set: 171, 151

[circlecity]

I will be bowling in a sport shot league this summer. The league will vote on what pattern to use I guess. Looking forward to it for sure.

[J Anderson]

I will be bowling in a sport shot league this summer. The league will vote on what pattern to use I guess. Looking forward to it for sure.

And I'm looking forward to having some other people post thier sport league scores here!

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
3/10/14
Pattern 2011 USBC Open



1st Set: 218, 159

2nd set: 182, 200

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
3/17/14
Pattern 2011 USBC Open



1st Set: 177, 147

2nd set: 170, 227

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
3/24/14
Pattern 2014 USBC Open team



1st Set: 167, 179

2nd set: 176, 191

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
3/31/14
Pattern 2014 USBC Open team



1st Set: 173, 137

2nd set: 173, 168

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
4/7/14
Pattern 2014 USBC Open team



1st Set: 157, 197

2nd set: 195, 167

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
4/21/14
Pattern 2014 USBC Open Singles/doubles



1st Set: 181, 171

2nd set: 184, 169

[circlecity]

Sport shot League
05/07/14
Pattern PBA Tour Scorpion

Game 1 = 203

Game 2 = 155

Game 3 = 140

Average = 166

[tccstudent]

my PBA league starts next week

[ALazySavage]

Very Excited...sport shot league starts tomorrow and just found out it the first pattern will be 40 ft. flat with a good volume of oil! It will be refreshing to not throw on a house shot during league.

[vdubtx]

Our Sport League starts June 3rd. Very excited to get some tougher stuff on the lanes.

[circlecity]

Sport shot League
05/21/14
Pattern PBA Cheetah

Game 1 = 145

Game 2 = 180

Game 3 = 215

Series = 540

Average = 172 after 9 games

[ALazySavage]

05/22/14:
Pba Bear pattern (40 flat)-
Game 1: 150
Game 2: 230
Game 3: 180
Game 4: 245

Amf synthetic surface
Will post a blog about the adjustments, equipment, and other thoughts on the pattern tomorrow.

[circlecity]

Sport shot League
05/28/14
Pattern PBA Cheetah

Game 1 = 159

Game 2 = 155

Game 3 = 237

Series = 551

Average = 175 after 12 games

[circlecity]

Bowling on the Shark pattern this wednesday and it scares me. :)

[circlecity]

Sport shot League
06/18/14
Pattern PBA Shark

Game 1 = 174

Game 2 = 182

Game 3 = 165

Series = 521

Average = 171 after 21 games

[J Anderson]

New season and some changes to the league format.
Due to Bowlmor's continuing war on league bowlers, our local independent house now has 3 leagues of 5 person teams using 48 lanes. The sport league has been restricted to a mere 8 lanes, and moved from four bowlers per pair to a maximum of 6. In the interest of finishing in a reasonable amount of time we eliminated moving between sets and stay on the same lanes all night.

DV8 Challenge League
9/8/14
Pattern Stockholm



166, 135, 135, 122

DV8 Challenge League
9/8/14
Pattern Stockholm

163, 135, 190, 188

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
9/22/14
Pattern Stockholm

202, 182, 174, 217

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
9/29/14
Pattern Stockholm

179, 146, 213, 207

[foreverincamo]

I'm planning on bowling in a sport league this coming summer. They change the pattern every 3 weeks. Is that the way they all work ? I've never done one before.

[J Anderson]

I'm planning on bowling in a sport league this coming summer. They change the pattern every 3 weeks. Is that the way they all work ? I've never done one before.

I can't answer for other centers. I believe the only requirements for sport leagues are that the Bowling Center and the league be sport certified and that all the bowlers in the league upgrade their USBC memberships to Sport. Some part of this requires that at least one lane is taped each week to prove that the oil pattern is sport compliant.

As far as I know, they could run the same pattern every week or they could run a different pattern each week. Since either of these extremes would lead to dissatisfied bowlers, the league I bowl in will generally use the same pattern for 3 to 4 weeks and then change. The only exception is when a pattern is only used one week and that would be for an end of season roll-off. By the way, we had one season where one pattern was used on the odd lanes and a different pattern was used on the even lanes.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
10/6/14
Pattern Atlanta

167, 200, 143, 173

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
10/13/14
Pattern Atlanta

135, 228, 201, 156

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
10/20/14
Pattern Atlanta

159, 141, 181, 202

Note: These are not my scores. I had to have a friend fill in for me and these are his scores.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
10/27/14
Pattern Atlanta

172, 191, 145, 189

[J Anderson]

Today was "Beat Your Coach" day. Each coach bowled as a pacer on a pair of lanes with the kids. Coaches switched pairs after each game so the all the kids would get to bowl at least one game against a coach.

Why is this post here? Our youth bowlers compete on sport patterns. Today's was London, a 44' pattern with relatively heavy oil.

My scores: 177, 167. So with handicap, most of the kids I bowled against beat my scratch scores.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
11/3/14
Pattern: London

143, 199, 162, 178

[Konvict1982]

Good bowling! I plan to bowl in our local sport shot league in the summer when it rolls around again! The only pattern besides a typical house shot that I have bowled on is Dead man's curve.

[J Anderson]

Good bowling! I plan to bowl in our local sport shot league in the summer when it rolls around again! The only pattern besides a typical house shot that I have bowled on is Dead man's curve.

Great! I look forward to having you post your scores here next summer.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
11/10/14
Pattern: London

182, 183, 199, 205

[MICHAEL]

Find Iceman a Sports league! Sure the bowling at Plattsburg on wood is very challenging, the way they change it every week, but its not a sports league. It mainly different combinations of the THS! Thursday had a 206, 207 and a @#$#!! for a 590! (don the math lol) It was a 40 foot THS.

Iceman having a great thought! ( I wonder if their machine can put down a sports pattern without much preparation )?

If so I could request Lee or Chris to lay one down on a Saturday night when I go practice! I will check into that possibility!!

ICEMAN rolls a 279 on U.S. OPEN pattern on wood! (((( YES I CAN SEE it in my minds eye ))))) or is it just my imagination!! LOL

http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg546/imagine686868/hh_zpswbzzccln.gif (http://s1243.photobucket.com/user/imagine686868/media/hh_zpswbzzccln.gif.html)

Whoooopie,,,, Iceman bowls a 279 on the U.S. Open.... in his dreams,,,, LOL

OR,,

Could it be a reality on wood in Plattsburg Missouri on wood,,, Just waiting for THE ICE!! :rolleyes:

[Mike White]

Find Iceman a Sports league! Sure the bowling at Plattsburg on wood is very challenging, the way they change it every week, but its not a sports league. It mainly different combinations of the THS! Thursday had a 206, 207 and a @#$#!! for a 590! (don the math lol) It was a 40 foot THS.

Iceman having a great thought! ( I wonder if their machine can put down a sports pattern without much preparation )?

If so I could request Lee or Chris to lay one down on a Saturday night when I go practice! I will check into that possibility!!

ICEMAN rolls a 279 on U.S. OPEN pattern on wood! (((( YES I CAN SEE it in my minds eye ))))) or is it just my imagination!! LOL

http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg546/imagine686868/hh_zpswbzzccln.gif (http://s1243.photobucket.com/user/imagine686868/media/hh_zpswbzzccln.gif.html)

Whoooopie,,,, Iceman bowls a 279 on the U.S. Open.... in his dreams,,,, LOL

OR,,

Could it be a reality on wood in Plattsburg Missouri on wood,,, Just waiting for THE ICE!! :rolleyes:

If that Phoenix DBA machine is a fluid metered type machine it should be able to put out a sport condition, if however it's wick based, it would be a lot more difficult, if at all possible.

The thing about a true sport pattern, is you put the oil on the lane, then take a sample of the oil with a special reader, and confirm you actually got the oil pattern you expected. I seriously doubt Plattsburgh has the equipment to read the oil pattern.

As for finding a Sport League for you, get off your frozen butt and find one yourself.

[MICHAEL]

If that Phoenix DBA machine is a fluid metered type machine it should be able to put out a sport condition, if however it's wick based, it would be a lot more difficult, if at all possible.

The thing about a true sport pattern, is you put the oil on the lane, then take a sample of the oil with a special reader, and confirm you actually got the oil pattern you expected. I seriously doubt Plattsburgh has the equipment to read the oil pattern.

As for finding a Sport League for you, get off your frozen butt and find one yourself.

I will look into that! They are so accommodating, and willing to pull the oil machine out and put down a pattern, I never thought to ask if they had the capacity to do sports patterns,,,, Aslan keeps me distracted with his quest to bowl a 220 average.... I need to Focus on my own life!! Good God he is wearing Ice out!!

I have been looking, and the reply is always, NOT IN THE FALL!

I will get started looking for a summer sports league MIKE, after my butt thaws!!! Not everyone lives in Ca!!!

I did for 6 years, and two earth quakes were enough for ICE!!

[Mike White]

I will get started looking for a summer sports league MIKE, after my butt thaws!!! Not everyone lives in Ca!!!

I did for 6 years, and two earth quakes were enough for ICE!!

I lived in Florida for 2 years. It only took one hurricane (Andrew) to chase my quake loving butt back home... after another 2 year layover in Vegas.

After an earthquake, you look at the rubble and ask, is that my house?

After a tornado (or hurricane) you look at the empty lot and ask, where is my house?

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
11/17/14
Pattern: London

178, 164, 178, 145

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
11/24/14
Pattern: London

179, 149, 220, 189

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
12/1/14
Pattern: Paris

190, 198, 146, 159

[Perrin]

it's not scores but thought everyone would find this interesting.

I found out one of the local sport leagues prize for the winner instead of Cash is a paid entry to a Regional event.

Wish I would have know about the league before halfway through the season :)

[J Anderson]

it's not scores but thought everyone would find this interesting.

I found out one of the local sport leagues prize for the winner instead of Cash is a paid entry to a Regional event.

Wish I would have know about the league before halfway through the season :)

Cool. Our sport league has at times done a side pot with the prize being a paid entry to the next NEBA tournament.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
12/15/14
Pattern: Paris

179, 257, 243, 222

I guess I was making up for having missed the previous week.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
12/22/14
Pattern: Paris

167, 173, 138, 206

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
12/29/14
Pattern: Paris

156 118 153 144
Obviously I should have stayed home last Monday.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
1/5/15
Pattern: ABC Masters

145 125 180 185

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
2/23/15
Pattern: 2003 ABC Nationals

185, 159,154, 169

finally, after two absences, two snow cancellations, and two school holidays where the league was "asked" not to bowl to allow for open bowling, back to the sport league!

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
3/2/15
Pattern: 2003 ABC Nationals


148 157 179 247

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
3/16/15
Pattern: 2003 ABC Nationals

135, 165, 155, 153

[J Anderson]

Beat your Coach Day

The youth league that I help coach had its "Beat Your Coach" day today. They were bowling on the 2003 ABC Nationals pattern. Each coach moved to a different pair after each game, so every child would have a chance to bowl head to head with a coach.

My scores were 149, 129, 154; all bowled left-handed to to a sore right wrist.

[J Anderson]

DV8 PBA Challenge league starts Monday. I will be bowling alternate weeks because of another commitment. A much younger friend will be bowling the weeks I'm not there. The wrist is almost back to normal, no pain but slightly less flexibility, no problems bowling four games at a time in my summer league.

p.s. This thread is open to any one bowling on sport or challenge conditions.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
9/14/15
Pattern: Viper

175, 145, 153, 159

I'd blame the low scores on the new ball I was using, but the real problem was that I started thinking about technique instead of just accepting what I was doing and adjusting to it.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
9/28/15
Pattern: Viper

115, 142, 161, 166

I'm supposed to be splitting the season with another bowler by bowling alternate weeks. I think that skipping a week hurt me as far as lining up on this pattern. What hurt even more was atrocious spare shooting. I think I only made three spares in the first two games. Worst of all was that my teammate didn't show last week.

On the bright side the scores went up each game, which set the pattern for the week. Wednesday, I got in a couple practice games, including one of Low Ball where I made 9 out of 10 ten pins right-handed and only missed 2 seven pins left-handed

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
10/5/15
Pattern: Shark

161, 156, 161, 151

Found out that the young bowler who said he would split the season with me is overwhelmed by a combination of work and going back to school, so I'm back to lining up a sub once a month.

Fourth game should have been my best game instead of my lowest. Was working on a strike going into the sixth threw it a bit wide for a five count, and fouled on the spare attempt. Next frame had a pocket 7-10. Ironically, this was the only game I won.

[Aslan]

I actually did better on the Shark than on the Viper (to my surprise). Like most PBA sport patterns...a tough out of bounds on the right and little room for error...but a lot of hold in the middle to guide the ball into the pocket.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
10/5/15
Pattern: Shark

111, 134, 148, 143

Bowled lefty due to a sore right elbow. One of those nights where something felt wrong on on most shots. Even when making strikes or spares, at least half felt more like luck than skill.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
10/26/15
Pattern: Chameleon

158, 179, 164, 166

Had a rough time getting lined up the first game and missed at least one spare that I should have made in each of the last two games. Over all a big improvement from the 12th

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
11/2/15
Pattern: Chameleon

147, 146, 165, 165

[J Anderson]

Beat your coach day for local youth league
Pattern: Cheetah
138, 190, 222

A fun morning for almost everyone involved. I decided to bowl lefty at thestart of the first game. I haven't bowled from that side on sport patterns this season, but it felt like the ball was coming off my hand better that way.
We coaches moved to a different pair after each game. A few fathers were drafted to bowl so therewould be an adult on each pair of lanes. I think all of them lost at least once to their own child,
Even on the first game only one kid beat me scratch.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
11/16/15
Pattern: Scorpion

189, 160, 179, 146

11/23/2015
Pattern: Scorpion
149, 137, 212, 143

11/30/2015
Pattern: Scorpion
178, 193, 132, 160

12/7/2015
Pattern: Cheetah
202, 184, 189, 209

I got a bit behind in posting scores, probably because I've been in a slump in this league most of the season. Finally had a decent series but was bowling against a Brunswick sponsored amateur who made it look like we were bowling on the easiest of house shots.

[J Anderson]

12/7/2015
Pattern: Cheetah
148, 167, 229, 200

[Hot_pocket]

Didn't get a chance to post my scores from Sunday. I bowl on a modified sport shot. Went 205, 151, 241 for 597. The first game I struggled a little to stay consistent but was able to grind out with easy spares and stringing a few strikes. The second game the lanes broke down like never before and I struggled to find a line after the 5th frame and had 4 splits. The 3rd game I watched a guy on the other team and followed suit moving to 22 and throwing anywhere inside of 10 to crush the pocket with my cyclone gambreaker. I used the haywire for games 1&2.

[BrianG]

I wish I could find a sport shot league around me that I could join. There was one that I was planning on joining but the alley closed down. Is it more expensive then a typical league?

[Amyers]

I wish I could find a sport shot league around me that I could join. There was one that I was planning on joining but the alley closed down. Is it more expensive then a typical league?

Fees vary most I have seen have been within a dollar or too of the regular leagues one I seen was actually cheaper. I'm not sure how far away for you but I'm sure there are multiple sport leagues in philly.

[BrianG]

It's about an hour and a half drive out to the philly area for me which makes it tough. There are a couple houses that are about 45 minutes away from me that have sport leagues but it's a struggle to get a team together.

[Hot_pocket]

I wish I could find a sport shot league around me that I could join. There was one that I was planning on joining but the alley closed down. Is it more expensive then a typical league?

$36 a week but we have a good prize fund and there's a-lot of money to be made every week.

[J Anderson]

It's about an hour and a half drive out to the philly area for me which makes it tough. There are a couple houses that are about 45 minutes away from me that have sport leagues but it's a struggle to get a team together.

The league I bowl in is $25 per week, 4 games. We may drop to 3 games next year to get done faster with the added benefit of more prize money.

No problem getting a team together as it's a singles league. Our big problem is competing for lanes with three other leagues due to Bowlmor acquiring Rip Van Winkle lanes in Norwalk. Since we don't want more than 6 people to a pair, (we started with the PBA format of 4 to a pair though without the PBA lane courtesey) the center has cut us back to only 8 lanes.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
12/28/15
Pattern: Earl Anthony
150, 143, 144, 177

[Hot_pocket]

Sunday league scores 163 170 208 for 541. Had an issue with my timing so I was very inconsistent throughout the night. The first game i had 5 splits because i was throwing it so bad. The second game i started correcting the issue briefly, Threw a few bad shots and got tapped twice. The third game i gave up on my own equipment and picked up my dad's ball and had a decent look with minor timing issues coming into play again.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League
1/4/15
Pattern: Earl Anthony
246, 146, 142, 162

Set the tone for an inconsistent week regardless of which hand i was using or what pattern I was bowling on.

[Hot_pocket]

Another rough Sunday night on the lanes. 161, 184, 199 for 544. Talk about struggling again. Just so inconsistent and each lanes playing different made it worse. Good thing is, it was double points and my team, was in 6th after creeping up from 14th, took all 14points. So will should be in 4th.

[Hot_pocket]

Another rough week for me, but another good week for my team. So I start out using my Cyclone Gamebreaker and i throw the first 3 dead flush. I was feeling like I was going to be locked it but SH#t got real after the 5th frame, I just lost is all. I couldn't hit my mark, speed was out of wack, opening up pulling the ball. I mean, I was doing everything wrong it felt like. I went 178-168-134 for a whopping 480.

[J Anderson]

Another rough week for me, but another good week for my team. So I start out using my Cyclone Gamebreaker and i throw the first 3 dead flush. I was feeling like I was going to be locked it but SH#t got real after the 5th frame, I just lost is all. I couldn't hit my mark, speed was out of wack, opening up pulling the ball. I mean, I was doing everything wrong it felt like. I went 178-168-134 for a whopping 480.

Yup, been there, done that! I really prefer the weeks when I struggle to get lined up the first game. Then it usually gets better each game.

[Hot_pocket]

never got to post from sunday. I now consider myself to be in a slump. i went 158, 178, 169 for 506. I put some practice in earlier in the week so hopefully tomorrow i can get out of said slump. The good news is my team is now tied for 3rd and only 10 pins out of first with position round tomorrow.

[Hot_pocket]

Yup, been there, done that! I really prefer the weeks when I struggle to get lined up the first game. Then it usually gets better each game.

yea normally its normally good to bad or bad to good for me. My mechanics have been off so I practiced and made changes to my game.

[Hot_pocket]

Had a good day on lanes Sunday. Been kinda busy so I couldn't post. Shot 216 209 203 for 628. It was one of those weeks were I could strike but not spare. Had the first 6 the first game but you wouldn't know it. Changed the line that I normally play and went further outside, practically straight down 5. Made a ball change in the middle of the second game to grind out that 209 and 203. Can't wait till Sunday. I just got a danger zone punched up and I'm hoping to do some damage.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge League

I've gotten out of the habit of posting my sport league scores. Last winter was disappointing. I bowled the summer session, averaging 164, about 10 pins under what I normally do on sport conditions. The high game of the summer was a 232 to a regional PBA bowler, Tim Gillick. I still managed to end the summer in the top half of the league.

This fall the league lost another pair of lanes. Since I have a conflicting commitment one Monday each week I have dropped out of this league. I did have a chance to bowl as a sub in it a few weeks ago. Scores were 151, 158, 169, 197.

[J Anderson]

Nutmeg Sport Challenge League
10/31/16
Pattern 1C
Scores: 131, 177, 174

Subbed again on Monday. Missed out on on warm-ups and the first game. Took three frames just to get loose, fourth frame I finally got the ball to stay right of board 20. unfortunately it hit the pins at 18 1/2 and left the 4-9. Had a hard time putting strikes together, Right lanes seemed to break much harder or earlier than the left. Same line with more speed seemed to work better than moving left.

[J Anderson]

Today was "Try to Beat Your Coach Day" for our youth league. Depending on your attitude this either a no win or a no lose situation. You can either take the view that if a kid beats you you didn't bowl well / if you beat all the kids, you haven't coached well, or you can can say I must be one heck of a good coach if kids beat you.

The youth league bowls on the same patterns as the Nutmeg Sport Challenge league. This week's was very short. My scores were 183, 189, & 187.

[J Anderson]

Nutmeg Sport Challenge League
12/26/16
Was asked to sub tonight.
179, 186, 184, 183
Not sure what the pattern was. Graph looked like heavy, flat oil for the heads, and lighter oil out to about 37'.
Solid night. I would have been even happier except my two opponents only threw one game under 200.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League
Pattern: Shark 43'
Set 1: 162, 186
Set 2: 197, 164

League format is singles, scratch, two bowlers per lane, two sets of two games with a change of lanes between sets, and two points for each game won, three points for total wood, max 7 points per set.
League meeting was set for 7:00pm, didn't start until 7:30. With 19 bowlers signing up at the last minute, we didn't start bowling till almost 9:00pm. Fifty one bowlers, six of them youth bowlers whose winnings will go to thier SMART accounts.

I was lucky that both my opponents were new to sport bowling and I was able to sweep both sets.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League
Pattern: Shark 43'
set 1: 150, 176
Set 2: 152, 195

Good luck continues as the second games were just good enough to take total pin fall in each set.

[steverwrx]

1st time bowling in sport league. 195 avg on house shot, down to 180 on for the first six weeks. Played the "Dead Man's Curve" and shot 215, 158, 257, 279. The 279 is the league high. Looking forward to two more weeks on this pattern :-)

[J Anderson]

1st time bowling in sport league. 195 avg on house shot, down to 180 on for the first six weeks. Played the "Dead Man's Curve" and shot 215, 158, 257, 279. The 279 is the league high. Looking forward to two more weeks on this pattern :-)

Good bowling! Don't be surprized if it doesn't play exactly the same next week. A lot depends on lane topography and also on how the bowlerson a particular pair of lanesattack the pattern.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League
Pattern: USBC Masters
set 1: 155, 133
Set 2: 147, 129

Rough pattern to bowl on after 2 1/2 weeks with out picking up a ball. Kept alternating between missing 1 or 2 boards right at the arrows and over compensating and missing a board left.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League
Pattern: Chameleon 43'
Set 1: 166, 187
Set 2: 195, 212

I think I have recovered from my trip to Alaska.

First set each game was just good enough to beat my opponent. Second set I decided to play about 5 boards further inside, where two of the other bowlers on the pair were playing. My opponent was completely lost until the 10th frame of the first game. He then opened the 2nd game with 6 in a row. He probably would have taken wood except for missing a single pin spare in the 7th frame.

[steverwrx]

Had the 4th of July and came back last night with a 803 4 game set, Low 165 and high of 233. Still liking the "Dead Man's Curve"

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League
Pattern: Chameleon 43'
Set 1: 171, 193
Set 2: 155, 189

Decent night. Faced subs both sets. Won the first game and the last game of the night good enough to take wood both sets.

P.s. Couldn't figure out how to get my Ipod to copy what I wanted from my previous post so I replied with quote and edited the quote.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League 7/24/17
Pattern: Cheetah
Set 1: 169, 166
Set 2: 143, 136
Missed way too many spares. Was lucky to take the last game and wood for the second set.
Buddies Summer Challenge League 7/31/17
Pattern: Cheetah
Set 1: 150, 168
Set 2: 167, 135
Still missing way too many spares. I think part of the problem is my spare ball, a Storm Mix, is hooking a little bit because of the short pattern. So shots that are pulled just a little bit , that would normally just clip the pin are missing by a board.Then I over correct for the hook and miss the other way.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League 8/7/17
Pattern: Cheetah
Set 1: 188, 142
Set 2: 176, 127

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge League 8/14/17

Could not bowl this week because I had a meeting to attend. Got there just in time to see the kid subbing for me get beat by Nicole Trudell in the last game of the second set by one pin.

[steverwrx]

I finished my summer sport league with a 187 which is within 10 of my regular average. Also took league high game with 279. Lot of fun and will definitely do it again next summer.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge league. 8/21/17

Pattern: Scorpion

First Set: 177, 171
Second Set: 194, 201

First set was decent, only lost the first game by six pins. My opponent got it together and beat me by 36 the next.
Second set I did the sweeping.

[J Anderson]

Buddies summer challenge league 8/28/17

Pattern:?

Set 1: 183, 179

Set 2: 191, 151

First set was just good enough to win the second game and take wood.

Second set I think I got frustrated because every one else was getting strikes, most of them Brooklyn, and I wasn't.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League
Pattern: Junior Gold U17 Rose (50ft.)
Scores: 180, 186, 190, 556 series

This was actually the second week of the season. I was pleasantly surprised to be in 6th place out of 26 after the first week since all I had said to Chris was “sign me up and and I’ll get the money for the first week to you later”. Not only did I get signed up, he also got one of his employees from the pro shop to sub for me.

The format this season is one against the field. In other words, you get a point for each bowler that you beat, and everyone moves one pair to the right after each game. Not my favorite format since you’re competing on different pairs and the part of the house where we’re assigned is noted for having couple tricky lanes and the way we switch means that everyone will get at least one “bad” pair, but 5 people will get both bad pairs each week.

[Timmyb]

Nice scores for a 50 ft. pattern! I've been on one, and they're tough.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge 9/23/19
Pattern: Junior Gold U17 Rose (50’)
Scores: 173, 183, 174

The main difference this week was not quite figuring out one lane on each pair. The only doubles were in the tenth frame of the second and third game.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge league 9/30/19
Pattern: Astro 40’
Scores: 149, 168, 167

Just not sharp tonight, didn’t throw with any real confidence until the tenth frame of the second game.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge league
Pattern: Astro 40’
Scores: 160, 166, 203

Spare shooting was still atrocious the first two games. Last would have been clean except for yanking the first ball in the tenth for a 3-6-7-10 split and then missing right to only get the 6 & 10 pins.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League. 10/21/19
Pattern: Bowl 35’
Scores: 206, 176, 157

Missed last week. Started with a spare, missed ten pin, guttered on a 6-7-10, then shot five strikes, and finished without another open. First two games I could miss a bit right and still make it back. Last game anything right would read too early and die.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge league 11/4/19
Pattern: Junior Gold Skore 39’
Scores:187, 168, 141

Lost my recap sheet from last week, but as the saying goes, it was nothing to write home about.
First two games this week were decent, at least compared to the bowlers I was crossing with. The last pair we were on seemed to favor the people who really like to swing the ball wide and have it snap back.

[J Anderson]

Buddies winter challenge league 11/18/19
Pattern: Junior Gold Skore 41’
Scores: 177, 152, 200

Evidently my sub for last week showed up at the alley but didn’t remember he was supposed to bowl for anyone.
Spare shooting was really inconsistent, missed some pins by several inches, missed a couple of washouts by about a half inch, and others were dead on.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge league
Pattern: same as last week I think
Scores: 179, 170, 134

Tye first two games were okay. The last game got into one of those situations one lane played faster than the other so you’d finish on the left lane and your letter would be up on the right, then you have to wait for the other 5 bowlers to finish on the left before bowling again.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge league
Pattern: Junior Gold Skore 45’
Scores: 215, 183, 153

First two games were solid, only one open and that was a 3-10 split in the ninth frame of game two. Timing or focus went out of whack the last game and this pair wasn’t nearly as forgiving as the first pair we were on.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge league
Pattern: Billy Hardwick 44’
Scores:160, 144, 144

Missed the last four weeks, one for a meeting and then recovering from a minor heart attack.
In hindsight, I should have either moved a lot further inside or tried the one remaining ball in my bag. Felt good to be back.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League
Pattern: ? 34’
168, 159, 174, 135

Not horrible considering I had not bowled on a sport pattern since early 2020. I was subbing for a friend and bowled these four games after bowling three games in my regular league late afternoon.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge league
Pattern ??? 37?
163, 193, 209, 185

Subbed again for the same friend. I was crossing with one of the guys from the pro shop, the mother of one of our best junior bowlers, and two of our junior bowlers.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League
Pattern: Don Johnson 40’
138, 171,174, 173

Spare shooting was horrendous the first game. It was still a little bit off the rest of the night.

[J Anderson]

Well, we're through the first four weeks of Buddies Summer Challenge and I'm just getting around to posting my scores. Amazingly the recap from the most embarrassing set has gone missing, and we don't even have a dog. Anyway here are the other scores:

6/7/21 Billy Hardwick pattern
Set 2: 167, 180
Lost both games to one of the guys from the proshop who was subbing.
To give an idea of how bad the missing set 1 scores were, I had an average of 151 or 152 going into week two.

6/14/21 Billy Hardwick pattern
Set 1: 157, 168. Lost both to one of the kids who graduated from our youth league 2 years ago.
Set 2: 170, 160. Lost both to another Youth league alumnus.

6/21/21 Marshal Holman pattern
Set 1: 145, 170. Won the first game by 2 pins, lost the second by 15. Was bowling one of the three people in the league older than myself.
Set 2: 142, 190. Lost both to one of our current youth bowlers, ( Because it's a singles league, Youth bowlers are allowed to compete with their prize moneys going into their USBC Smart Accounts )

6/28/21 Marshall Holman pattern
Set 1: 185, 183. First game was close until my opponent struck out in the 9th & 10th to win by 27 pins. Second game I won by 32.
Set 2: 178, 151. My opponent was a woman who is filling in for her husband who signed up for the league and has yet to throw a shot. I won both games. First week that my spare shooting wasn't completely horrible. Naturally now that I'm starting to fell like I know what I'm doing in this league we don't bowl on the 5th.

[Ryster]

The youth bowler thing is kind of interesting. Is this bowler under 18? If so, how difficult was it to get all of the adult bowlers on the league SafeSport compliant?

[J Anderson]

The youth bowler thing is kind of interesting. Is this bowler under 18? If so, how difficult was it to get all of the adult bowlers on the league SafeSport compliant?

Good question. We have 7 kids that I’m pretty sure are U18 and maybe 3 or 4 more that might be. I know two of the young adults did the Safe Sport training and I’m compliant through my youth league coaching. I honestly have no idea if anyone else is.

[Ryster]

Good question. We have 7 kids that I’m pretty sure are U18 and maybe 3 or 4 more that might be. I know two of the young adults did the Safe Sport training and I’m compliant through my youth league coaching. I honestly have no idea if anyone else is.

The requirement that all adult bowlers bowling with junior bowlers having to be SafeSport compliant is what caused all adult leagues at our center to pass rules that bowlers must be 18+. Most of the adult bowlers flat-out refused to become SafeSport compliant [many threatening to quit any league with under age 18 bowlers] so there was really no choice but to require 18+. There were not a lot of under 18 bowlers, but there would be occasions where juniors would come in as subs or something of that nature.

Before SafeSport no one really cared as long as the parental permission form was signed, but then when the requirement came out it became a hot button issue.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge
Pattern: Del Ballard 34’
Set 1: 163, 203
Set 2: 179, 185
The first set was supposed to be against one of the best junior bowlers in the state, but she was off at Junior Gold. Her older sister subbed for her and really struggled to get the ball to stay on the right side of the headpin. Second set I was supposed to face a college student who had been in our local youth league. She was also away at Junior Gold. Her sub was a young woman who bowled for Sacred Heart University and has made the stepladder of at least one PWBA tournament. She struggled a bit the first game with a bunch of splits, but figured things out the next to beat me by about 30 pins and take wood for the set.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge
Pattern: Del Ballard 34’
Set 1: 179, 134

Set 2: 172, 178

Surprisingly I won both games the first set. Found out later my opponent had missed last week and thought we were on a longer pattern.
Second set won the first game, lost the second but took wood.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge league
Pattern: Mike Aulby 38’

Set 1: 188, 201

Set 2: 168, 220

The first set I won the first game by 38 and lost the second by 41☹️

The next set I lost the first by 2 and won the second by 61.😁

[J Anderson]

BuddiesSummer Challenge League 8/2/2021

Pattern: Mike Aulby 38’

Set 1: 234, 151

Set 2: 183, 161

Bad spare shooting kept me from sweeping the first set. Second set I trailed the first game start to finish and lost by 5. Next game I again trailed right up to the tenth but then my opponent opened the last frame, letting me win the game and wood.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge league

Pattern: Earl Anthony 43’

Set 1: 150, 177

Set 2: 161, 178

[Aslan]

Good question. We have 7 kids that I’m pretty sure are U18 and maybe 3 or 4 more that might be. I know two of the young adults did the Safe Sport training and I’m compliant through my youth league coaching. I honestly have no idea if anyone else is.

Sounds like a cool league.

I joined a parent/child league the first half of last fall and it was sanctioned and they wanted you to do the SafeSport thing. I can't remember if I did it or not. They "asked" us to do it but sort of admitted that it had been a real problem getting people to do it so they were gonna kinda "leave it alone" unless they got a complaint. I think their hope was everyone would do it and if everyone didn't...then they'd just hope that none of the parents complained or requested that they follow through with making them do it.

I joined a challenge league this summer...not knowing it was going to be essentially youth bowlers. The guy running the center, I guess, was a high school coach so he started a summer challenge league and most of his team worked at the center and joined the league. I was the only person over the age of 25 and one of only two people over the age of 18. Then there were about 5 kids ranging from 15-17. I usually held my own...but could never win a stepladder match.

I only was in the league a couple weeks before transferring to my Tuesday summer league. Only had a chance to bowl on "Winding Road" and "Route 66" patterns...which are Kegal Navigation Sport Series patterns.

[J Anderson]

Sounds like a cool league.

I joined a parent/child league the first half of last fall and it was sanctioned and they wanted you to do the SafeSport thing. I can't remember if I did it or not. They "asked" us to do it but sort of admitted that it had been a real problem getting people to do it so they were gonna kinda "leave it alone" unless they got a complaint. I think their hope was everyone would do it and if everyone didn't...then they'd just hope that none of the parents complained or requested that they follow through with making them do it.

I joined a challenge league this summer...not knowing it was going to be essentially youth bowlers. The guy running the center, I guess, was a high school coach so he started a summer challenge league and most of his team worked at the center and joined the league. I was the only person over the age of 25 and one of only two people over the age of 18. Then there were about 5 kids ranging from 15-17. I usually held my own...but could never win a stepladder match.

I only was in the league a couple weeks before transferring to my Tuesday summer league. Only had a chance to bowl on "Winding Road" and "Route 66" patterns...which are Kegal Navigation Sport Series patterns.

I think you would remember if you had actually done the safe sport training. Most people who I know that have taken it complained about how long it took to complete.

Some of our adult bowlers have complained about having the kids in the league. Some of it may be jealousy. These kids have already bowled 3 games in youth league and now they’re throwing 4 more games with more speed and revs than I ever had and and they act like they could roll another 7 games after we’re done. Part of it is that they are teenagers and they’re still trying to figure out how to act like adults.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge league

Pattern: Earl Anthony 43’

Set 1: 164, 178

Set 2: 183, 176

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge league
8/30/21

Pattern: PWBA Players 49’

Set 1: 159, 119

Set 2: 162, 145

This was the final week and a double position round. I was in 20th place out of 40. The bowler in 19th didn’t show up, and didn’t get a sub so I had to beat a blind score of 172 to take any points. We must have dropped to 21 & 22 because I wound up with the same AWOL opponent the second set but the other bowlers on the pair were the guy subbing for the first place bowler,( who couldn’t be caught after set one and the last place bowler.

It didn’t feel like my game was off by very much but paid the maximum penalty for small errors.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge league.

Pattern: a 42’ Junior Gold one.

Scores: 197, 194, 158

First night of the season and a different format from the summer. Only three games, 4 or 5 bowlers per pair, every one moves one pair right after each game, one point is earned for each player you beat. The league manager is only disclosing the pattern length for the Junior Gold patterns since the name of the pattern is not announced in advance in JG competition. Giving the length just to keep the whining from the adults to a minimum.

We have 27 bowlers, a few more than in the recent past. It’s a mix of the middle aged guys who have been in the league for at least the last ten years or so, some college age kids who are still in the area, and some of the high school age kids from our junior league. At the league meeting it was mention that those people over 18 would have to complete the Safe Sport training.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge week 2

42 Junior Gold Pattern

Scores: 142, 174, 179

One of those nights when you know what to do but there seems to be a disconnect between your brain and your body

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 3

Pattern: Junior Gold 42’

162, 155, 169

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 4

Pattern: Junior Gold 45’

133, 174, 194

The low score in the first game was not due to having to figure out a new pattern. My spare ball kept sticking on my hand. If I get some time this week I need to get my fit checked.

[J Anderson]

Buddies winter Challenge league week 5

Same pattern as last week

I don't want to divulge my scores other than to say they were embarrassing.

I thought I had last week’s problems straightened out. Not!

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge league, week 7

Pattern: 40’ Junior Gold

Scores: 180, 189, 180

First game was going very well until back to back washouts in the ninth and tenth. Second game was a grind, only a few strikes but a double in the tenth and only one open. Last game started with two missed spares but ended clean.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League
Week 8

Pattern: 40' Junior Gold

Scores:192, 170, 163

Week 9

Pattern: 40' Junior Gold

Scores: 127, 148, 178

Week 10

Missing recap

Week 11

Pattern: 35' Junior Gold

Scores: 201, 175, 168

Week 12

Pattern: 35' Junior Gold

Scores: 246, 172, 177

[J Anderson]

Buddies winter Challenge League week 14 (don’t know what happened to week 13)

Pattern: 35’ Junior Gold

Scores: 198, 181, 157

Week 15

Pattern:Same as week 14

Scores: 195, 160, 224

[J Anderson]

Buddies winter Challenge League week 16

Pattern: 37’ Junior Gold

Scores:178, 149, 193



Buddies winter Challenge League week 17

Pattern: 37’ Junior Gold

Scores:179, 179, 159

This season the league spans from lane 35 to lane 44. Lanes 1-40 are the original part of the center, 41-56 were added later and even though all the lanes were converted to some sort of synthetics, lanes 41- 56 have more back end than the older lanes. Both weeks I went form old to new and back to old. Last week I just didn't figure out lanes 43-44, 4 splits in one game. This week I did as well moving to the high end but lost it on the move back to 37-38.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge League week 18

Pattern: 37’ Junior Gold

Scores: one forty something, 191, 169

The center upgraded its software so it looks like we might no longer get triplicate recaps. All I remember of game one was that I didn't make any spares.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge League week 19

Pattern: 40’ Junior Gold

Scores:168, 180, 178

Buddies Winter challenge League week 20

Pattern: 40’ Junior Gold

Scores:160, 168, 195

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge League week 21

Pattern: 40’ Junior Gold

Scores:168, 179, 172

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter challenge League week 22

Pattern: 39’ Junior Gold

Scores:169, 181, 148

Correction for the three previous weeks; the pattern was a 43' Junior Gold pattern not a 40' one.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge league week 23

Pattern: 39’ Junior Gold

Scores: 163, 186, 205

It was one of those nights where almost every practice ball struck, no matter where I threw it or which ball I used. Then four frames in it’s like a completely different pattern. Didn't help that I whiffed a couple easy spares.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 24

Pattern: 39’ Junior Gold

Scores: 158, 201, 233

Another slow start. In this center lanes 1-40 tend to hook less than 41-56. The week’s sport pattern is applied on lanes 33-46. We move to the right after each game, skipping one pair, so I bowled one game on the low end and two games on the high end tonight. So I’m not sure if I just benefited from moving to lanes that favored the way I throw, or by following five good bowlers who broke the lane down well, or whether I just started executing better shots. It was a good night either way.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 25

Pattern: 44’ NEBA Qualifier

Scores: 174, 155, 214

Sorta felt like I knew what I was doing by the end of the night

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 226

Pattern: 44’ NEBA Qualifier

Scores: 146, 164, 182

Thought I had it figured out last week. well at least the scores went up as the night went on.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 27

Pattern: 44’ NEBA Qualifier

Scores: 176, 169, 220

The second game was on lanes 41-42 which hook much more than any of the other pairs. This week however there seemed to be much less friction to the outside than other weeks.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 28

Pattern: Mike Aulby

Scores: 170, 145, 210

I hate it when it takes two and a half games to throw the ball right.

[RobLV1]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 28

Pattern: Mike Aulby

Scores: 170, 145, 210

I hate it when it takes two and a half games to throw the ball right.

Did it take that long to throw it right, or did it take that long to figure out the shot? Big difference!

[J Anderson]

Did it take that long to throw it right, or did it take that long to figure out the shot? Big difference!

Good question Rob, and one would think it would be easy to answer. In hindsight I was rushing my deliveries trying to make spares the first two games. I did have a few strikes that felt right but I would guess in the first two games 15 of my strike attempts didn't feel right regardless of whether I was using the correct ball and line for the lane condition. The last game those percentages reversed. 75% felt good and only 25% felt off. The last six balls were strikes and five of those were both on target at the arrows and hit the pocket so it's possible that the good result influenced my perception of the delivery.

p.s. Out of the five of us crossing together, only the young two-hander shot over 200 the second game. The rest of us, including the owner of the pro-shop, were probably playing that pair wrong.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 30

Pattern:Mike Aulby 38'

Scores:160, 154, 164

I did bowl week 29. Someone either turned the duplicate recaps in with the top sheet or they tossed all the copies before I could grab a copy of my scores. Total was probably similar to this week but more variation from game to game.

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 31

Pattern: Del Ballard 34'

Scores:179, 182, 176

Not great scores but all three above my average and a lot of the other bowlers were getting frustrated. If I can just get my mind and body to focus on all of my spares I should do well the next two weeks.

I also bowled a NEBA Tournament last weekend but missed the cut by about 130 pins. Finally figured where I should be playing the fifth and last game and shot a 211 that game.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 32

Pattern: Del Ballard 34’

Scores: 146, 213, 186

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 33

Pattern: Del Ballard 34’

Scores: 153, 134, 196

The middle game was a case of every adjustment being just a little too much or not quite enough.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 34

Pattern: Earl Anthony 43'

Scores:152, 147, 173

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 35

Pattern: Earl Anthony 43'

Scores:154, 174, 157

Weird night, we usually have five bowlers on each pair. The league manager lets people switch to a different starting pair to even the numbers if a pair has six bowlers scheduled. There were six scheduled for my pair, four of them were AWOL, and the other decided to bowl on a pair with more of his friends leaving me by myself. I let the manager know there was no one else on my lane , so he said to move to one of the pairs with 4 bowlers. So we bowled with one pair of lanes idle each game.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge League week 36

Pattern: Earl Anthony 43'

Scores:186, 207, 126

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 5/23/22 (Week 1)

Pattern Billy Hardwick 44'

Scores:
Set 1: 132, 124

Set 2: 166, 172

Total embarrassment. I'm not entirely sure why I was so off, but I think as Yogi Berra might have said it was "90% half mental".

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 6/6/22 (Week 2)

Pattern Billy Hardwick 44'

Scores:
Set 1:169, 167

Set 2: 189, 161

After the first week I decided to go lefty for the Summer. Had a Radical Results Solid and a Results Plus drilled and was pleasantly surprised that one of them worked on this pattern, and was able to make most of my spares. I think at least part of the fourth game drop was from being at the center from 4:30 pm to help register kids for the summer youth league until well past 10:30.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 6/13/22 (Week 3)

Pattern Billy Hardwick 44'

Scores:
Set 1:115, 129

Set 2: 183, 146

The lefty experiment continues. There are just enough decent shots to keep it going. The ball looked good coming off my hand 38 times out of 40. I made all my 7 pins. Quite a few of the opens were from trying to hook at the spare to get a better idea of where the strike line should be.

At least next week we switch to a new pattern and I can start with new mistakes!

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 6/20/22 (Week 4)

Pattern Marshall Holman 41'

Scores:
Set 1:122, 146

Set 2: 145, 185

Had some sliding/sticking issues the first game. New pattern this week. I think is transitions faster than the last one. In the first set, my opponent was the only one of us four to top 200. The second game he only shot 170, and I was either even or ahead through the 7th frame. one of the other two bowlers got hot and shot 230 but the fourth bowler continued to struggle.
Second set I moved one pair to the left and the person I was supposed to bowl was absent. This league uses a blind score of 172 so at least I was able to take a couple points.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 7/11/22 (Week 6)

Pattern Del Ballard 34'

Scores:
Set 1:136, 146
Set 2: 129, 147

I was out sick for week 5 and then we didn't bowl on July 4th. I had planned on skipping coaching, (the summer youth league runs 6p.m. to about 8:00p.m.) but found out that the other coach was sick so I had to have supper early and get over to the alley. By the time the Challenge league started I didn't have the energy to maintain focus.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 7/18/22 (Week 7)

Pattern Del Ballard 34'

Scores:
Set 1: 155, 179
Set 2: 187, 158

This week I showed up at the end of youth league. Instead of my normal warm-up I just did five ball drill. I think both of these helped my scores improve this week. Still missed a few easy spares the fourth game but shooting spares lefty is exhausting. I don't know how real lefties do it!

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 8/1/22 (Week 9)

Pattern: ?????

Scores:
Set 1: 144, 172
Set 2: 159, 160

I missed week 8 and I lost my copy of the league rules which listed the names of the patterns. I will just repeat what my friend Matt, who had been told by the person he was subbing for that it was a 34' pattern, said, "It's not short."

I decided to go early enough to help coach the junior league. None of the other coaches showed up:mad:
The kids actually finished early for a change, which left me with an hour wait because we bowl on the same lanes as the kids and they have to be re-oiled.

[boomer]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 8/1/22 (Week 9)

None of the other coaches showed up:mad:

I hate it when they do that. At LEAST let people know, right?

[J Anderson]

I hate it when they do that. At LEAST let people know, right?

Actually one of them had sent an e-mail but I hadn't checked it before leaving for the center.

[boomer]

Ahhhh - the real story comes out! LOL

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 8/8/22 (Week 10)

Pattern: Earl Anthony 43'

Scores:
Set 1: 160, 107
Set 2: 137, 172

Just a very frustrating night. My opponent for the first set was AWOL, or rather AWOS (absent without sub). This league has a rather odd rule for bowling against a blind score or a vacancy. Instead of a blind score based on the missing person's average or one based on your own average you have to beat 172. I think falling 13 pins short that first game threw me into a funk for the rest of the set. The second set started with me sticking on the approach and then throwing very tentative shots for the next 4 frames.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 8/15/22 (Week 11)

Pattern: Earl Anthony 43'

Scores:
Set 1: 125, 123
Set 2: 181, 135

I plead the fifth.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 2022 8/29/22 (Week 13)

Pattern:?

Scores:
Set 1: 188, 127
Set 2: 148, 145

Don't know what happened to the scores for week 12. Very disappointed with how I bowled over the summer. I think I would have been better off just taking the summer off from the sport league. I did not sign up for the fall.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 22-23 10/17/22 Week 6

Pattern: Junior Gold 47'

Scores:149, 190, 182

I may not have signed up, I may have bowled like c*** all summer, but at least one of my friends is willing to let me sub for him:)

Pretty tough pattern to figure out. I tried a ball straight up 5 in practice and as expected it just barely touched the 3 pin. Next shot I moved my target and my feet two boards left and went through the nose. First frame of game one missed the head pin leaving the 1-2. moved my feet 3 right, hit my mark and missed the head pin to the right again:confused: At least I made enough spares to have decent scores the 2nd & 3rd games.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge. 11/28/22 week 11?

Pattern: Junior Gold 40’

Scores: 235, 160, 160

Got sort of a last minute call to sub. The actual call came from my friend Jim who was the missing bowler’s first choice, but had already said he would sub for someone else.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 19 1/23/23

Pattern: Junior Gold something?

Scores: 203, 173, 170, 546 series

First game was clean for the first nine frames then whiffed an easy one in the tenth. Second game I couldn’t quite find the right line on the pair we had moved to. Finally got a double in the 8th & 9th then left the 1-2-4-10 washout on the first ball of the tenth. Moving to lanes 41-42 for the last game I was able to find a line a bit faster. Was working on another double going into the tenth but got the ball outside too early and it went through the nose for a big split, 4-7-10 if I recall correctly.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 20 1/30/23

Pattern: Junior Gold something?

Scores:172, 157, 162, 441 series

Lost the first game by 51 pins, won the next by 7 and lost the third by 7

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 21 2/6/23

Pattern: Junior Gold something?

Scores:208, 193, 197, 598 series

For this half of the season the league manager is doing every week as a position week. 10 points are earned for every game you win from your opponent and twenty for total wood. you also earn one point for every score you beat in the rest of the field each game and for every series you beat. So there are lots of points available each week. The other weird thing is we're bowling 5 to a pair so the four bowlers at the bottom of the standing sheet are not bowling on the same pair as their opponent.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 22 2/13/23

Pattern: Junior Gold 41'

Scores:217, 183, 164, 564 series

After last week I had moved up far enough in the standings to be bowling against the person just ahead of me. He looked totally lost except for the end of the second game when he struck out for a 198. I may have moved into the top half of the standings.

[J Anderson]

Catching up posting the last month and a half.

Buddies Winter Challenge week 23 2/20/23

Pattern: Junior Gold 41'

Scores:166, 158, 143, 467 series

Nope. Didn't move to the good side of the standing sheet and didn't bowl nearly as well as last week even though it was the same pattern, just starting on a different pair.


Buddies Winter Challenge week 24 2/27/23

Pattern: Junior Gold 41'

Scores:153, 149, 162, 469 series


Buddies Winter Challenge week 25 3/6/23

Pattern: NEBA Qualifying 44'

Scores:163, 160, 174 series


Buddies Winter Challenge week 26 3/13/23

Pattern: NEBA Qualifying 44'

Scores:167, 141, 201, 509 series


Buddies Winter Challenge week 27 3/6/23

Pattern: NEBA Qualifying 44'

Scores:172, 169, 176, 517 series


Buddies Winter Challenge week 28 3/6/23

Pattern: Mike Aulby 38'

Scores:191, 186, 145, 522 series

8 weeks left, and I'm in 16th place out of 24. My average is at 173 which is traditionally the mean for this league. It will be interesting to see if I can move up with this position round every week format or if the format is actually having the effect of freezing everyone in place.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 29 4/3/23

Pattern: Mike Aulby 38'

Scores:154, 155, 183, 492 series

Buddies Winter Challenge week 30 4/10/23

Pattern: Mike Aulby 38'

Scores:143, 200, 160, 503 series

Odds of moving up in the standings are not looking up. Because of the every week is a position week format, I have bowled the same person three weeks in a row. He bowled much better this week so maybe I will get someone else next week.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 31 4/10/23

Pattern:Dell Ballard 34'

Scores:147, 149, 151, 447 series

Dropped one place, opponent was a no show.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 32 4/24/23

Patternell Ballard 34'

Scores:160, 147, 159, 466 series

Opponent was a no show again:(

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 33. 5/1/23

Pattern Dell Ballard 34'

Scores:117, 177, 174, 468 series

First game score was due to absolutely horrendous spare shooting. The Storm Mix that I use as my spare ball, which normally moves 0 to 1 boards on the house pattern, had been moving about 2 boards the previous weeks on this pattern. This week it was moving 4 or 5. I think it was me but other bowlers were seeing their White Dots and T-Zones hook too. Went from lowest score on the pair the first game to highest score the second and next to the highest for the third game and for wood among the four of us.

We still have three weeks left. The last pattern will be the Earl Anthony pattern, 43'

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 34. 5/8/23

Pattern Earl Anthony 43'

Scores:154, 163, 177, 494 series

Good enough to move up a spot.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 35. 5/15/23

Pattern Earl Anthony

Scores:128, 172, 176, 476 series

I have a feeling that I will be one spot lower next week:(

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge week 35. 5/15/23

Pattern Earl Anthony

Scores:128, 172, 176, 476 series

I have a feeling that I will be one spot lower next week:(

The last week did not go any better:(

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 6/12/23 (Week 2)

Pattern: Super Senior Classic

Scores:
Set 1: 156, 171

Set 2: 159, 164

I'm splitting the season with my friend Tim who bowled the first week. The pattern didn't seem that hard. I had been at a DiRupo Bowling camp in NJ over the weekend and had made a somewhat substantial change in my approach and haven't quite figured out how to line up for my spares yet. I had a fair number of strikes but missed way too many spares.

The first set I got run over by one of the juniors that Tim and I coach. He rolled back to back 249s. The second set I won the first game by 30 pins and then lost total wood by 9.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 6/26/23 (Week 4)

Pattern: Senior Masters

Scores:
Set 1: 141, 118, 259 series

Set 2: 185, 147, 332 series

The pattern is beginning to emerge; win one game each week.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 7/3/23 (Week 4)

Pattern: Masters

Scores:
Set 1: 147, 146, 293 series

Set 2: 161

Pattern repeats, poor first set that loses both games, won first games of second set than the alley lost power.:(

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 7/10/23 (Week 6)

Pattern: Masters

Scores:
Set 1:124,184, 308 series

Set 2: Did not bowl

My friend Tim was back. The league manager had decided to bowl this week's sets first and do the make up games from last weeks disrupted second set at the end. Since both Tim and I were there we decided I would bowl the first set and Tim would finish the night. Once again I bowled just good enough to win one game:mad:

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 7/17/23 (Week 7)

Pattern: ??????

Scores:
Set 1:174, 142, 316 series

Set 2: 166, 167, 333 series

The pattern was supposed to be "Team Trials 4" but I heard a rumor that they screwed up and ran last weeks pattern again. I didn't throw any great numbers but won three of the games and took wood both sets.:)

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 7/31/23 (Week 9)

Pattern: Team Trials 4??????

Scores:
Set 1:145, 202, 347 series

Set 2: 176, 174, 350 series

Going by the schedule this week should have been the Team Trials 3 pattern. I think they announced last week that they had indeed run the Masters pattern week 7 so they adjust so each of the remaining patterns would get two weeks, or rather that we would get two weeks to figure out each of the remaining patterns.

The first set I lost the first set by 2 pins because I missed way too many easy spares:mad: Won the second game by more than 50 because my opponent (a teen aged two-handed lefty) still didn't have a good line and I put 5 strikes in a row:cool:

The second set I was up against the bowler who entered the night in first place. He struggled to find the line and I got out to a 20 pin lead and managed to mark just enough to stay ahead and win by 16. The second game he still couldn't figure out how to get more than a double. I kept making spares and the occasional strike to keep the game close. A missed ten pin in the 8th cost me the game but I held on to total wood.

[Aslan]

This reminds me of the ole sport shot league I joined with Mike White and Bunny. Mad props though! That sport shot/challenge shot...I just felt mentally drained by the end. Not physically...but mentally.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 8/14/23 (Week 11)

Pattern: Team Trials 3??????

Scores:
Set 1:164, 169, 333 series

Set 2: 172, 181, 353 series

The joy of bowling head to head singles with 4 bowlers to a pair; I lost to my opponent's 202 the first game, the other match was 151-150. The second set I lost to a kid that I used to coach who shot a 265 and a 202. the other match was the person in second place vs a blind score of 172. Would have taken 6 points from the blind and two points had I been bowling Chris.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Summer Challenge 8/28/23 (Week 13)

Pattern: Team Trials 6??????

Scores:
Set 1:113, 167, 280 series

Set 2: 203, 153, 356 series

Hadn't touched a bowling ball since 8/16, found out Sunday night my friend Tim was out of state and I wound have to bowl the last night of the summer session. I had to show up to help with the Juniors at 5:30, Challenge league is supposed to start at 8:00 on the same lanes as the kids had bowled on. The kids bowling on lanes 1-4 were slow finishing up. They could have started oiling at the other end and worked their way back but instead waited for the last kids to finish before starting the machine on lane one. Then someone realized that it was a double position round and the lane assignments were wrong for the first set. It was a very long evening and I was glad I manage to at least take a few points and bowl one decent game.

[Aslan]

Went from a consistent night to an inconsistent one.

Taking even a short break from bowling can really throw ya off.

[J Anderson]

Went from a consistent night to an inconsistent one.

Taking even a short break from bowling can really throw ya off.

When we start up again next week the scheduled start time will be half an hour earlier than for the summer session. I will be bowling every week instead of splitting a spot so I hope to see some improvement just from those changes.

[J Anderson]

DV8 Challenge 9/11/23 (Week 1)

Pattern: ??????(Short)

Scores:
140, 137, 134, 411 series

First night. The league manager didn't seem quite ready for the season to start. Normally we get a copy of the league rules which includes a list of the patterns we will be bowling on. Instead we got a verbal run down of how things would go, were told the first pattern was short and drew numbers for lane assignments. The format is weird. Position round every week plus bowling against the field. I drew #19 so I bowled against my friend Mark who had drawn #20. I won one game but lost the next two. However I also got a point for every score that I beat in the rest of the field.
They posted the standings and I'm in 22nd place out of 26. Places 21, 22, 23, 24 bowl against the vacant score of 172, while 25 and 26 bowl each other.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 9/18/23 (Week 2)

Pattern: Junior Gold 35'

Scores: 144,157, 165, 466 series

If you noticed that the name of the league has changed since my post for the first week, the reason is last week I was going by the center's list of Fall/Winter leagues. Looking at the standing sheet last night the name was back to last year's version.

At least the scores went up instead of down this week.

[Aslan]

Over 50 pins higher than last week!

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 9/25/23 (Week 3)

Pattern: Junior Gold 35'

Scores: 134, 146,128, 408 series

No Comment.:(

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 10/2/23 (Week 4)

Pattern: Junior Gold 45'

Scores: 140, 135, 188, 463 series

Strange night. First game started okay then I started missing all my spares to the right. Second game was alternating spares and opens. Third game I had the high game on the pair and the only turkey of the game. The other bowlers on the pair were in 1st 2nd and 12th place going into the competition, I was coming in at 21st. The league is set up as being a position round every week. first twenty places bowl head to head on the same pair, next four bowl on different pairs and last place always bowls the vacant team and must beat 172 to win a game.

[Aslan]

I can only imagine how hard those patterns are. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

Every bowler, before making a comment like "I can bowl better than these guys (PBA bowlers on TV)"...should have to bowl just 3 nights in a challenge or sport shot league.

[Timmyb]

I can only imagine how hard those patterns are. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

Every bowler, before making a comment like "I can bowl better than these guys (PBA bowlers on TV)"...should have to bowl just 3 nights in a challenge or sport shot league.

One night on Shark will cure about anyone from that....

[Aslan]

One night on Shark will cure about anyone from that....

PBA Shark was like, the first PBA pattern I ever bowled on. Here are the PBA/Challenge patterns I've bowled and the results (avert your eyes if you're squeemish):

PBA Shark: 161.00 (8 games)
PBA Wolf: 147.75 (4 games)
WTBA Beijing: 125.25 (4 games)
PBA Scorpion: 154.43 (14 games)
PBA Cheetah: 152.75 (12 games)
WTBA Mexico City: 146.75 (4 games)
PBA Dick Weber: 170.80 (10 games)
WTBA Sydney: 142.00 (1 game)
PBA Viper: 148.50 (4 games)
PBA Chamelion: 161.00 (1 game)
USBC White Pattern: 179.00 (6 games)
Brunswick Inferno: 162.33 (6 games)
Brunswick Rhino: 140.83 (6 games)
Brunswick The Deep: 139.67 (3 games)
Brunswick Black Diamond: 162.75 (8 games)
PBA Don Johnson 40: 157.00 (1 game)

All PBA/Sport/Challenge Pattern Average: 155.85 (92 games)

I remember liking PBA Dick Weber...and hating PBA Wolf and Brunswick The Deep. I remember thinking I was going to love the Wolf pattern, because it was so short, but man...that one seemed impossible!

[Timmyb]

I thought I would do well on the Don Carter pattern. 187 says otherwise....

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 10/9/23 (Week 5)

Pattern: Junior Gold 45'

Scores: ???????? series

Missed grabbing a copy of the recap. As I recall it wasn't good.

Buddies Winter Challenge 10/16/23 (Week 6)

Pattern: Junior Gold 45'

Scores: 129, 140, 148, 417 series


Buddies Winter Challenge 10/23/23 (Week 7)

Pattern: Junior Gold 40'

Scores: ??????? series

Missed getting a copy of the recap again. Probably a subconscious reaction to the way I've been bowling.

Buddies Winter Challenge 10/30/23 (Week 8)

Pattern: Junior Gold 40'

Scores: 165, 161, 174, 500 series

Spare shooting was much better, not really as good as I expect to be, but getting there.

[Aslan]

Hang in there. It's tough on the "grown up" patterns...when your miss room shrinks that much...but it's more meaningful in the long run.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 11/6/23 (Week9)

Pattern: Junior Gold 50'??

Scores: 126, 143, 176,445 series

I thought this was supposed to be the last week on the Junior Gold 40' pattern but it certainly didn't play the same even though I was crossing on the same three pairs. What makes it confusing is that it seems like with the Junior gold patterns, no matter how long the pattern is, some people can play up the gutter. Didn't help that I was back to atrocious spare shooting the first two games.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 11/13/23 (Week10)

Pattern: Junior Gold 50'

Scores: 164, 152, 168, 484 series

I'm pretty sure that we were indeed on the advertised pattern. This week it seemed like the outside line was the one to play. Still seems weird to see throwing urethane out to the two board and making it back to the pocket on a pattern this long. Started the first and second games with strikes followed by two opens. Third game started with a spare and then one open. It was looking to be a better game but the first ball in the tenth left a 2-5-7. I should have aimed between the 2 & 5 but I thought I could cover the baby split and kick the 2 into the 5, Tugged it just a bit and only hit the 7.

[Aslan]

Good consistency though!

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 11/27/23 (Week12)

Pattern: Junior Gold 50'

Scores: 197, 150, 141 series

For some reason I thought I had posted last week's scores. I recall they were similar to week 10, maybe 20 pins lower for the series. Only open first game was a 2-4-5-7 that I tried to hook at and only managed to pick off the 5 pin. Changed balls two frames in to game two. Started with three opens, all three were ones that I think I should make. Last game I think I just ran out of gas.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 12/4/23 (Week13)

Pattern: 2023 Junior Gold advancers R1 #5. 41'

Scores: 155, 154, 212, 521 series

First game was my normal not quite loose, not quite sure where I should be playing, and just a bit off in executing shots. Second game started off clean and then I had 4 open frames to close. Only one of them was a split. The last game started with a turkey and stayed clean the rest of the way.

[boomer]

way to grind through!

I hate those, but we gotta grind through, right?

[Aslan]

Yeah...probably felt good to get that clean 212 after the struggles early.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 12/11/23 (Week14)

Pattern: 2023 Junior Gold advancers R1 #5. 41'

Scores: 128, 173, 167, 468 series

I usually shoot for being at the alley half an hour before league is scheduled to start. That gives me ample time to find out what lane I'm starting on, get some coffee from the snack bar, get my stuff out, check the approaches etc. This week I went to our nephew's house for a birthday party for his 6 year old daughter. I got to the center 10 minutes before we were supposed to start. There were no standings sheets out, after finding my lane a friend came up and started asking for advise about a problem with his house before I even had my coat off. I was able to get my coffee and change into my bowling shoes before the lanes came on for practice, but no time to really loosen up and mentally shift to bowling mode.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 12/18/23 (Week15)

Pattern: 2023 Junior Gold advancers R1 #5. 41'

Scores: 144, 166, 179, 489 series

Better than last week, no drama over getting to the lanes on time. However it was one of those nights where everything I tried in practice I got to strike within a frame or two. Once the game started I couldn't hit the pocket with anything. in the 1 v 1 portion of the scoring I lost the first two games and total pin fall. Good chance I will drop back down a place in the standings.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 1/8/24(Week16)

Pattern: Junior Gold 38'

Scores: 136, 199, 146, 481 series

Sometimes I think I need to bowl a game before league and get my stupid misses out of the way. First game was on 41-42 which always plays a bit (some would say a lot) different than 43-50. Figured out the right lane fairly early. Openned on the left up until the tenth. Felt like I was throwing it well, just not lined up right. Most of us did better moving to 43-44. One of us had a 222, the other two bowlers both shot 198. I felt like I belonged for about 5 minutes:) We had relatively long waits between games. Our pair only had 4 bowlers and the pair ahead of us had five, two of whom were either giving or waiting for two lane courtesy. Started by missing an easy spare, didn't get a whole lot better.

[Aslan]

Buddies Winter Challenge 1/8/24(Week16)

Pattern: Junior Gold 38'

Scores: 136, 199, 146, 481 series

Sometimes I think I need to bowl a game before league and get my stupid misses out of the way.

I often think the same thing. Except, I'm not as good a bowler as you...so I need two games to get my stupid misses out of the way.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 1/15/24(Week17)

Pattern: Junior Gold 38'

Scores: 141, 180, 134, 455 series

Very similar to last week, just playing out on different lanes.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 1/22/24(Week18)

Pattern: Junior Gold 43'

Scores: 151, 157, 188, 496 series

First week of the second half, new pattern. Maybe there's some hope for this half, didn't lose every game in the head to head and it looked like there were a fair number of scores less then 150 each game for the 1 v field. We had two bowlers drop out for this half and I think one bowler was AWOL so three of the pairs only had 4 bowlers. Mine was one of those pairs and we had one of the three lefties in the league on it so we didn't see a lot of transition with in each game The changes were usually moving from pair to pair. Started on 47-48 and had to move parallel in on 49-50. Going to 41-42 there is always a lot more motion. Switched from a Phase II to a HyRoad and went Brooklyn for a strike the first frame. Moved my target a board right and got a pocket strike frame two and and moved my feet a bit left the next frame to start with a turkey. the rest of the game wasn't quite at that level of execution but good enough to beatify opponent.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 1/29/24(Week19)

Pattern: Junior Gold 43'

Scores: 165, 141, 145, 451 series

Another if only night. Lost game one by 5 and game two by 3 pins.Just a little better carry or another spare and those are wins instead. Only consolation was that there were a lot of low scores. Like the bowlers who followed us on lanes 47-48 didn't have a single game over 140.

[Aslan]

You're supposed to do BETTER the second week on the pattern!

Just joshin ya. I continue to give you MAD props for taking on the sport patterns. Far too few bowlers are willing to put their inflated scores/egos on the line to challenge themselves.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 2/5/24(Week20)

Pattern: Junior Gold 43'

Scores: 148, 142, 168 series

I think that everyone in the league is Glad this was the last week for this pattern.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 2/12/24(Week21)

Pattern: Junior Gold 44'

Scores: 162, 149, 151, 462 series

New pattern, same low scores.
Our scorers put the first ball count in a red oval to denote splits. With four splits in the first game and three in the first half of the second it looked like I was decorating for Valentines day. At least I was able to convert the 7-8 and one of the 4-9s that I left. The other splits were all of the nearly impossible variety. only missed one ten pin , a 1-2-8 that I tugged and a 1-2-4-10 washout that I at least covered the 1-2-4.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 2/19/24(Week22)

Pattern: Junior Gold 44'

Scores: 186, 170, 159, 515 series

I looked completely lost during warm ups. Started game one with a spare then opened with a split frame two. After that I sort of figured out the pair and had a decent game. Moving to lanes 49-50 it took a little while to get lined up again. Made a few errant shots including leaving a washout on the first ball in the tenth. Made the spare and left a stone 8 on the fill. Ran out of steam in the last game. This game was on 41-42, which most of the time requires opening up your angles and balling down. I think because of the length of the patterned possibly the number of urethane balls thrown in the first two games I was able to move left a bit and kept on throwing the Phase II. Just wasn't executing as well as I had been.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 2/26/24(Week23)

Pattern: ? I think it was the same as last week.

Scores: Did not bowl

I thought I was restricted to non-strenuous activities for 5-6 days so I got a sub and sat out. The only good part was that my sub got to bowl on the same pair with his son. Missed my Wednesday league with a doctor’s appointment, where I found out the restriction was only 3 days. Today I was back for my Thursday league, won the high game pot, had two games over average and a series that was about 40 pins over, and my team won two games plus total pin fall.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/4/24(Week24)

Pattern: 2024 US Open Pattern #3

Scores: 155, 141, 138, 434

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/11/24(Week25)

Pattern: 2024 US Open Pattern #3

Scores: 166, 214, 177, 557 series

This week I started on 49-50, a pair that typically plays with significantly more hook on lane 50. Only took 9 frames for it to dawn on me that with almost 50' of oil with a 1.25 to 1 ratio, the two lanes played the same. Moved to 41-42 and decided to try the HyRoad. This pair almost always hooks more and it might not have been as much as usual but it was enough for the lanes to play differently. the last game I didn't get quite the carry as I had game two but it was a solid game until I wife a ten pin in the tenth.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/18/24(Week26)

Pattern: 2024 US Open Pattern #3

Scores: 138, 146, 211, 495 series

You would think third time on the same pattern would be the charm and I would improve on last weeks decent scores. I had too much speed on the ball in the first two games, even when I had tried to slow it down. It really hurt to foul on the fill ball of the tenth game one and to fouls on the first ball in the tenth game two. I doubt if I have any more than 5 fouls total in the last ten years of bowling. The 211 was on the same pair that I shot 214 last week. On to something new and different next week.

[Aslan]

Only took 9 frames for it to dawn on me that with almost 50' of oil with a 1.25 to 1 ratio, the two lanes played the same.

Yeah. One of the many significant advantages pros have over amateurs...it seems like they see something and make immediate correct decisions. For me, it seems like I spend more than game trying to figure things out.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/25/24(Week27)

Pattern: ???????

Scores: 148, 170, 170, 488 series

The league manager is out at the USBC Masters. It was supposed to be a new pattern this week, definitely played different, but no word on what the pattern was.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 4/1/24(Week28)

Pattern: ???????

Scores: 149, 155, 172, 476 series

Forgot to ask so I still don't know what pattern we're on. There were several complaints that it didn't play like last week. I wish I had enough consistency to be able to complain about that.

[Aslan]

I wish I had enough consistency to be able to complain about that.

:D

Yup. I know that feeling.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 4/8/24(Week29)

Pattern: ???????

Scores: 154, 175, 234, 563 series

Talked to one of the guys who usually knows what the pattern is. He was pretty sure it was U S Open #4 but that was from knowing it was a U S Open pattern and judging how it played the first 2 weeks.

Because I moved up in the standings after last week I wound up starting on 47-48 as I had last week. That may account for the higher scores or maybe it was due to the eclipse:cool:

[Aslan]

A lot of bowlers, including myself, would LOVE to shoot a 234 on a sport pattern. Highest I managed was a 220 and that was on the 45' Black Diamond...back in mid-2019.

[Timmyb]

A lot of bowlers, including myself, would LOVE to shoot a 234 on a sport pattern. Highest I managed was a 220 and that was on the 45' Black Diamond...back in mid-2019.

Shot 700-something on Cheetah a few years back, but after watching the pros decimate the pattern, I guess that's not a big accomplishment....